State v. Athan’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
1 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably York v. Wahkiakum School Dist. No. 200 (2008), State v. Hinton (2014)
1 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 10 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Crawford v. Washington · Mapp v. Ohio
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is generally required, the failure of a court to give a limiting instruction is not error when no instruction was requested”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Dow · State v. Russell“must examine the totality of the circumstances to determine when the conduct becomes so outrageous that a reversal of a conviction is required.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Abuse of discretion requires the trial court's decision to be manifestly unreasonable or based on untenable grounds or untenable reasons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.